Join the Chatham Community Library every Thursday evening in October for a series of sci-fi film screenings in the Holmes Family Meeting Room. Snacks provided!

First in the series is Forbidden Planet (1956). Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space cruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr. Morbius, his daughter, a dutiful robot named Robby…and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.

This program is free and open to the public.